1976 Swedish general election

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1976 Swedish general election
Flag of Sweden.svg
  1973 19 September 1976 1979  

All 349 seats in the Riksdag
175 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Olof Palme 1974 (cropped).jpg Falldin.JPG Gosta Bohman (1967).jpg
Leader Olof Palme Thorbjörn Fälldin Gösta Bohman
Party Social Democrats Centre Moderate
Last election1569051
Seats won1528655
Seat changeDecrease2.svg4Decrease2.svg4Increase2.svg4
Popular vote2,324,6031,309,669847,672
Percentage42.75%24.08%15.59%
SwingDecrease2.svg0.81ppDecrease2.svg1.02ppIncrease2.svg1.30pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Per Ahlmark, 2005.jpg Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0701-023, Berlin, Erich Honecker, Lars Werner cropped.jpg
Leader Per Ahlmark Lars Werner
Party People's Party Left Communists
Last election3419
Seats won3917
Seat changeIncrease2.svg5Decrease2.svg2
Popular vote601,556258,432
Percentage11.06%4.75%
SwingIncrease2.svg1.64ppDecrease2.svg0.58pp

Riksdagsvalet 1976.svg
Map of the election, showing the distribution of constituency and levelling seats, as well as the largest political bloc within each constituency.

PM before election

Olof Palme
Social Democrats

Elected PM

Thorbjörn Fälldin
Centre

General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976. [1] Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag, [2] a coalition government was formed with the Centre Party, the People's Party and the conservative Moderate Party (who won a combined 180 seats), which formed Sweden's first non-socialist government since 1936. Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin, who had widely been expected to take over the government in the previous election of 1973 (which turned out to bring a 175-175 draw between the left and right blocs), was appointed Prime Minister, the first not from the Swedish Social Democratic Party since Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp's brief interregnum 40 years earlier.

Contents

Debates

1976 Swedish general election debates
DateTimeOrganisersModerators P  Present   I  Invitee  N  Non-invitee 
S C M L V Refs
1 September 1976P
Olof Palme
P
Thorbjörn Fälldin
N
Gösta Bohman
N
Per Ahlmark
N
Lars Werner
[3]
Sveriges Television Lars Orup [sv] P
Olof Palme,Gunnar Sträng
P
Thorbjörn Fälldin
P
Gösta Bohman
P
Per Ahlmark
P
Lars Werner
[4]

Results

Sweden Riksdag 1976.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Swedish Social Democratic Party 2,324,60342.75152–4
Centre Party 1,309,66924.0886–4
Moderate Party 847,67215.5955+4
People's Party 601,55611.0639+5
Left Party Communists 258,4324.7517–2
Christian Democratic Unity 73,8441.3600
Communist Party 17,3090.3200
Other parties4,6630.0900
Total5,437,748100.00349–1
Valid votes5,437,74899.65
Invalid/blank votes19,2950.35
Total votes5,457,043100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,947,07791.76
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seat distribution

ConstituencyTotal
seats
Seats won
By partyBy coalition
S C M F V RightLeft
Älvsborg North 9431154
Älvsborg South 8322153
Blekinge 7321143
Bohus 11432274
Fyrstadskretsen 1993421910
Gävleborg 136311258
Gothenburg 1973342109
Gotland 21111
Halland 9332163
Jämtland 53223
Jönköping 13542285
Kalmar 11532165
Kopparberg 136411167
Kristianstad12542175
Kronoberg 733143
Malmöhus11532165
Norrbotten 126211248
Örebro 11631156
Östergötland 188432199
Skaraborg 11442174
Södermanland 9521145
Stockholm County 331267531815
Stockholm Municipality 321248441616
Uppsala 104311155
Värmland 12632166
Västerbotten 10531155
Västernorrland 13741167
Västmanland 9521145
Total34915286553917180169
Source: Statistics Sweden

By municipality

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References

  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1873
  3. Valet 1976 - Duellen - Olof Palme (S) och Thorbjörn Fälldin (C) , retrieved 2024-02-01
  4. Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, Slutdebatter – Partiledardebatt (in Swedish), retrieved 2024-01-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)